On Monday 13 January 2003 14:21, Adrian Bucur wrote:
> I removed an old mysql version and I installed a new one on a machine
> running Suse 8.1 Linux.
> shell>rpm -i MySQL-client-3.23.54a-1.i386.rpm
> shell>rpm -i MySQL-shared-3.23.54a-1.i386.rpm
> shell>rpm -i MySQL-devel-3.23.54a-1.i386.rpm
> shell>rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
> shell>reboot
>
> shell>safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
> shell>ps -ax
> ...
> 961 pts/0 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql
> 977 pts/0 S 0:00
> /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
> 979 pts/0 S 0:00
> /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
> 980 pts/0 S 0:00
> /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
> ...
> shell>mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
This sets a password for user 'root'.
> shell>mysqladmin -u root -h hostname password 'new-password'
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'hostname' failed
> error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'hostname' (110)'
> Check that mysqld is running on hostname and that the port is 3306.
> You can check this by doing 'telnet hostname 3306'
> shell>telnet hostname 3306
> Trying IP_address...
> telnet: connect to address IP_address: Connection timed out
Seems, you have no running MySQL server on host 'hostname'.
> shell>mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'
But you have already set up a password for 'root'.
Try to change it using:
mysqladmin -u root -p password 'new-password'
and enter root password that you set before.
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